No Way! (SPOILERS)

Well all right I was expecting it, and it was predictable, but it's what was implied by the events that grabs my interest the most.

Like Locke said to Walt way back in Season 1, backgammon is a game of white and black pieces, "good versus evil". He held up the pieces in the frame just to make that point.

The pieces are moving around the board, the game is on.

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was desperately trying to atone for some bad things he had done. Any time a main character has a flashback, it deals with pivotal events in their lives. The black smoke/monster reflects

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past deeds back to him. Everyone reflects on their lives and in some regard they are all being judged.

So one monster judges the right (the White) and one judges the wrong (the Black). Backgammon, an ancient game of the Gods, whomever they may be.

Dharma, as Alvar Hanso said during the Lost Experience, is the "One True Way" and now I think he means it, or else! The game is getting very interesting now, which piece is next to fall?

I love your interpretation! Very well said.

So why did the smoke monster not attack last season? Remember the ep where it hovered right in front of Ecko and it was almost like he stared it down? Had he not reflected enough so it didn't know all the wrong things he had done?

I guess that Eko was 'told' by Smokie to build the church, and while he started he abandoned the project. This made Smokey very disappointed.

Lesson is dont disappoint Smokey...Smokey has issues.

Also we should remember when the caves were found (we don't see much of them now do we?) there were 2 dead people (a man and a woman) AKA "Adam and Eve" and they had a pouch with them that contained a Black and a White marble... It seems that there is a theme of Black and White colors on the show (like the numbers). Also it was never stated by any of the shows creators that there was TWO monsters.

I never realized the latter.